Bishop Robert Emmet Barron

Bishop Robert Emmet Barron, Bishop of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, USA, was born on 19 November 1959 in Chicago, in the metropolitan archdiocese of the same name. He obtained a master's degree in philosophy at The Catholic University of America in Washington in 1982, a licentiate in Theology at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Chicago in 1986, and a doctorate at the Institut Catholique de Paris in 1992. He was ordained a priest for the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Chicago on 24 May 1986. After priestly ordination he was parochial vicar of Saint Paul of the Cross Parish in Park Ridge from 1986 to 1989; professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake from 1992; founder and executive director of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries from 1999; visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, in 2002 and at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, in Rome in 2007; scholar in residence at the Pontifical North American College in Rome in 2007 and from 2010 to 2011; Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary from 2008 to 2012, where from 2012 he was also rector-president. He also assisted in various parishes in the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Chicago. In 2015 he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles. Up to the date of the source he had been episcopal vicar for the Santa Barbara region of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops he was chairman of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth.